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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
Never give nor take an excuse.
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
